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Patent GB-190213282-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fastenings for Belts and other Articles
Filed: 1902-06-11
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 13,282. Lake, H. H., [Gordon Clasp Co.]. June 11. Clasp fastenings.-A belt or other clasp, consisting of two interlocking members, is shown in section in Fig. 4. One member a is formed with a wedge-shaped latch a' and a ridge a<3>. The other member b is formed of spring metal, bent as shown, and is provided with latches b<3>, b<6> and stop lugs b<4>. Both members have eyes b<5> received on bent ends of cross-bars c forming loops fur attachment of the belt &c. d.
Patent GB-190213919-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Combs of Lace Machines.
Inventor: JARDINE ERNEST
Filed: 1902-06-19
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 13,919. Jardine, E., and Chamberlain, J. June 19. Lace machines.-Relates to the combs of lace machines. In order to reduce the friction between the carriages and the combs, a part B of one or both faces of the comb is sunk below the level of the rest, thus reducing the surface of contact.
Patent GB-190221175-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Assisting Combustion and Preventing Smoke in Boiler and other Furnaces.
Inventor: APPLEGARTH ROBERT
Filed: 1902-09-29
Granted: 1902-12-11
Abstract: 21,175. Applegarth, R. Sept. 29. Smoke-consuming blast apparatus. - Relates to improvements on apparatus of the kind described in Specification No. 991, A.D. 1901. Instead of being mounted in a ball joint, the tube d is held by three setscrews g, g<1>, g<1>, so that, by screwing them in or out, the inclination of the tube may be varied. A removable cover p is provided, which is independent of the steam connections, the latter being supported on a lug a, forming part of the casting a by which the apparatus is secured to the furnace front. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the apparatus with the cover removed ; the cover is, however, indicated by dotted lines.
Patent GB-190223139-A (GB)
Title: A Double Acting Pneumatic Brake.
Inventor: FICKENSCHER ALFRED AUDREAS
Filed: 1902-10-23
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 23,139. Fickenscher, A. A. Oct. 23. Brakes.-Relates to pneumatic brakes for railways, motor cars, tramways, and the like, in which a piston reciprocates in a cylinder against the resistance opposed by the air or gas contained therein. The invention consists in making the brake so that rarefaction of the air, as well as compression of the air, is caused to furnish braking resistance. The piston b, Fig. 3, is reciprocated in the cylinder a by the mechanism to be controlled. At one side of the cylinder is a valve chest which communicates with it at different points along its length by ports c', c<2>, c<3>, c<4>, c<5>. These points are controlled by a slide e which may be made to close all or open one or more. At each end of the cylinder is a recess whereby the piston is put in equilibrium on the completion of each stroke. The portion of the stroke made use of for braking, and the intensity of the pressures, depends on the adjustment of the slide e, being practically nothing when all the ports are uncovered. Clearance can be regulated by adjusting the crosshead and screwing in the brake-cylinder end. The slide e may be adjusted by a rack or a lever, or it may be composed of several heads on a screwed spindle, as shown in Fig. 9. These ports may be stepped, as shown in Fig. 11, to reduce the travel of the slide
Patent GB-190224379-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Hydraulic Centre Valves for Gas Purifiers.
Inventor: CLAPHAM THOMAS STOWELL
Filed: 1902-11-07
Granted: 1903-09-17
Abstract: 24,379. Clapham, T. S., and Clapham, S. B. Nov. 7. Purifiers, centre valves for. By regulating the flow of water into or out of f a series of concentric and radiallyd i v i d e d chambers so as to leave f r e e from water those chambers through which the gas is required to pass, the gas may be conducted through any one or more of the purifiers. Gas entering by the inlet pipe a, traverses the chamber beneath the cover q and openings in the plate p into any of the chambers c which do not contain water. Thence it passes through openings in the lower parts of the partitions f<1> to the chambers g, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 10, and the egress openings m to the purifying-apparatus, on leaving which it returns by the openings n to the chambers g<1> or g<11>. If to the chambers g<1>, it passes through openings in the lower part of the partitions f<11> into the chambers c<1>, and then through openings in the upper part of the partitions b<11> to the outlet space b and the gas holder or other apparatus. If, however, the chambers g' ccntained water and g<11>, g<111> were empty, the gas would pass from the openings n to the chamber g<11>, and through openings in the lower part of the partition h<111> to the chamber g<111>, and through the egress pipe m to another purifier. The supply of water to the chambers is controlled by inlet and outlet valves, in which three adjacent orifices in the plate s are opened or closed by a rotary plate w, having, in the case of an inlet valve three, and, in the case of an outlet valve four, corresponding openings, the plate being actuated and its position being indicated by the handle or pointer x. Glass-tube or glazed indicators show the level of the water in the chambers.
Patent GB-190225248-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Fastening the Jackets of Double Walled Vessels.
Inventor: MISSNER MAX
Filed: 1902-11-17
Granted: 1903-01-08
Abstract: 25,248. Missner, M. Nov. 17. Hollow-ware, jacketed.-Relates to a method of fastening the jackets of double-walled vessels, the object being to fasten the jacket without rivets or screws. A steam-jacketed boiler is shown in Fig. 1. To the outer surface of the inner wall of the vessel, the annular trough 2, 3 is fastened by soldering, and the outer wall of the trough is folded or bent over the ring 4, the outer face of which is slightly conical or bevelled, and the jacket 5 is placed round the bent part 3 of the trough and pressed against it by the ring 6, preferably shrunk on and provided with a suitable conical or bevelled face. The projecting ends of the parts 3, 5 may be jumped or upset as at 7, or they may be bent or flattened, and the ring 4 may be flanged. In Fig. 4, the joint is shown formed between the jacket 5 and the vessel 1 by the trough 3 of the vessel with the rings 4, 6, the rim 8 being riveted to the lower part 1 of the vessel.
Patent GB-190303584-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Cable Drum
Inventor: HOCKEN WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-02-16
Granted: 1904-02-16
Abstract: 3584. Hocken, W., Hocken, T., and Brooks, F. T. Feb. 16. Reels.-A revolving drum B, having extended flanges, moves independently round an axle D at both ends of which are mounted rims or wheels E. Battens or coverings are fastened on the flanges C of the drum by means of bolts screwed radially therein. Each batten, Fig. 4, has extended slots at both ends wide enough at one part to admit the heads of the bolts, and the batten is then moved until the bolts enter the narrower parts of the slots. The last batten to be put on is attached by a thumb-screw at each end, and serves as a key to the series. The cable can be unwound without having to raise the reel from the ground by the aid of jacks.
Patent GB-190305538-A (GB)
Title: A Rainproof Seat & Back for Out Door Purposes
Inventor: BURNETT WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-03-10
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 5538. Robinson, W. B., and Salisbury, H. March 10. Seats.-In outdoor rainproof seats, three uprights A<1> are connected together at the middle by two bolts B<1>, at the bottom by cross-stays, and at the top by a brass tube B. The spring back E of each seat is mounted on a rectangular steel frame D, which slides in channel-guides in the uprights A<1>, and is connected by a rod G with the rear end of the pivoted bottom frame C. When the bottom frame C is pulled down by the knob K, the rod G pushes up the back D until it is locked by a pivoted catch I, and the rear end of the bottom frame engages with the second bolt B<1>. Upon a person sitting down, the lower end of the spring E presses against the catch I and causes a second catch L to pass over the horizontal bar of the frame D. When the sitter rises, the catch I, guided behind the frame D, strikes and releases the catch L, whereupon the weight of the back D, acting through the connecting-rod G, causes the bottom C to fold up. A pivoted rain-protecting shutter H, of which the movement is limited by a chain H<2>, then falls over the upper edge of the lowered back D.
Patent GB-190305578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lining Boxes or Bushes for Split or Two Part Pulleys and the like
Inventor: DIETRICH EMIL
Filed: 1903-03-10
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 5578. Dietrich, E. March 10. Pulleys and driving - drums ; mounting and securing pulleys on shafts.-Relates to lining boxes or bushes for split or two part pulleys or driving- wheels. A box or bush is made in two parts, each of which consists of a semi-cylindrical hollow body or cup 1 having a longitudinal recess or recesses 2. The ends 3, 4 of the cups fit round the shaft, and flanges 5, 6 on the cups take between webs 7, 8 of the pulley, to prevent rotation of the box relative to the pulley. The boss 9 of the pulley bears on the box, and when the parts of the pulley are bolted together the box is tightened on the shaft sufficiently to prevent any rotation of the pulley relative to the shaft.
Patent GB-190310555-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Manufacture of Axles for use with Railway Carriages, Waggons, Engines, Trolleys, Tramcars, and the like Rolling Stock, and Machinery or Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: BARRON THOMAS
Filed: 1903-05-09
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 10,555. Barron, T. May 9. Rolling.-Axles for railway carriages, wagons, engines, trolleys tramcars, and other rolling-stock are produced by pressing or rolling suitable blanks between relatively moving plates or dies. The upper plate or die d, Fig. 3, is mounted on a plate c on the rams b of a hydraulic or other press, and the lower plate e is mounted on the plate f, which is reciprocated on ball-bearings in the table g by the piston h of a steam engine. The dies d, e are shaped to produce finished axles, as shown in Fig. 2, or the journals may be formed by a second operation.
Patent GB-190313576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Turbines.
Filed: 1903-06-17
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 13,576. British Thomson - Houston Co., [Junggren, 0.]. June 17. Steam turbines.- A parallel-flow turbine, such as is used for driving a dynamo for a locomotive head-light, provided with h a governor designed t withstand its adverse conditions is shown in Fig. 1. The turbine casing 1 has a sloping floor 2 so that condensation water drains away to the exhaust 3. The throttle valve 21 controls the steam-admission passage 7, and is mounted in alignment with the shaft 13 and has a depending rod 22 adapted to be acted on by the governor. The governor casing 23 is used as a nut to secure the turbine wheel 10 on the shaft. The governor casing contains a sliding thimble 25, Fig. 2, pressed upwards by a coiled spring so that it contacts with the lower end of the valve-rod and is also acted on by rollers 32 on arms projecting from levers 30 weighted at both ends and mounted on knife-edge bearings on supports 27.
Patent GB-190320385-A (GB)
Title: A Sprinkler Attachment for Bottles.
Inventor: COLE GEORGE LINCOLN
Filed: 1903-09-22
Granted: 1904-07-21
Abstract: 20,385. Cole, G. L. Sept. 22. Drawings to Specification. Sprinkling-bottles.-A sprinkling-attachment for bottles containing disinfectant or other liquid consists of a perforated rubber cap provided with a beaded or thickened portion round its bottom edge adapted to fit upon and grip the neck of the bottle. On the bottle being shaken, the liquid is projected through the perforations.
Patent GB-190324294-A (GB)
Title: Process for Freeing Yeast Extracts from Bitter Principles.
Inventor: JENSEN CHRISTIAN ALBERT
Filed: 1903-11-09
Granted: 1904-09-08
Abstract: 24,294. Jensen, C. A., [Deissler, R. Nov, 9. Food preparations.-The bitter principles present in yeast extracts are precipitated by treatment with oxidizing-agents and removed by filtration, in order to obtain alimentary yeast extracts free from bitterness. This operation can be conducted before or after separation of the yeast cells, and before or after concentration of the extract. Hydrogen peroxide is preferably employed as the oxidizing-agent. The yeast extract may be firstcondensed and then boiled with the peroxide.
Patent GB-190325027-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces for Steam Boilers.
Inventor: WADE EVAN HENRY
Filed: 1903-11-17
Granted: 1903-12-17
Abstract: 25,027. Wade, E. H., Nicholson, J. L., and Smith, S. C. Nov. 17. Steam-generator fireboxes; air, supplging; smokeconsuming.-Consists in making air chambers and passages in division plates or walls extending across locomotive and other fireboxes, in which the air for secondary combustion is heated before delivery into the heated smoke and gases. The Figure shows a locomotive firebox with water legs at its front and rear, and a pair of water tubes 17 joining them. At the rear, on the top of these tubes, is placed an air chamber 19 consisting of a hollow tile or brick communicating with the outside air by holes 23 through the water legs ; these holes may be protected on the outside by the oil can shelf 24. A similar arrangement is provided at the forward end, where the brick 25 is in connection with a brick 27 having apertures on its lower side for directing air to the smoke and gases. These tiles extend across the firebox, and are supported at the sides by angle brackets. Two such tiles, arched upwards and supporting each other at the centre, may be used. The lower tile 25 has holes pierced through it, not open to the interior of the tile, through which any ashes falling on the tile fall on to the bars.
Patent GB-190403901-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Economizing Fuel and Preventing Smoke in Stoves, Furnaces and the like.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1904-02-16
Granted: 1904-05-19
Abstract: 3901. Thompson, W. P., [Hoberecht, A.]. Feb. 16. Stoves ; smokeconsuming.-To economize fuel and prevent smoke in stoves, furnaces, and the like, the smoke is drawn off through a"draught "pipe " E, the open end of which is situated above the fire. This pipe may be perforated atits end, as shown, and may lead into a heating-chamber D<1>. A fire door C with an adjustable air inlet C<1> may be provided, and the ash pit door H may have ports. The end of the pipe E tends to become red d hot, and to consume the smoke as it passes into the pipe.
Patent GB-190406128-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Cooling, Heating and similar purposes.
Inventor: BURDH ARCHIBALD FRASER
Filed: 1904-03-12
Granted: 1905-05-12
Abstract: 6128. Burdh, A. F. March 12. Condensers.-In a casing, flat plates are arranged in a parallel series so as to form shallow flat chambers alternately for the heating and cooling media. These plates are stamped or punched as shown, so that a series of small hemispherical or other bosses A' are produced on one (the cooling- water) side and a series of staggered parallel ridges A' on the other (steam) side of each plate. The plates are so set that the bosses and ridges on the sides of each chamber are opposite each other. Their ends are attached to the ends of the casing, and their edges to each other, by means of molten metal. In some cases, a single, long, bent plate may be used to form the series of chambers. The steam passes in by a conduit B<2> and is forced, by a baffle B<3> supporting a grid C which protects the joints of the chambers, to pass through this grid, any condensed steam passing through the openings b into the steam chambers. The condensed steam passes out through the conduit B<8>. The cooling- water passes in by the conduit B<10> and out by the conduit B<17> after traversing the water chambers. Soda or other cleansing-solution may be admitted to the steam conduit B' through an opening B<18> and a passage B<19> in the wall of the conduit, leading into a chamber B<20> formed by a recess in this wall closed by a perforated flange on the grid C. A baffle B<31> prevents steam from blowing back through the opening. The front parts of the steam chambers may be enlarged at the top and bottom.
Patent GB-190408049-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas or Air Compressors
Inventor: STERNE LOUIS
Filed: 1904-04-07
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 8049. Sterne, L. April 7. Check valves.-Relates to gas or air compressors. The valves k, Fig. 5, consist each of a perforated cup l, which is secured to a ring m so as to open against the action of a spring n, the amount of the opening being limited by an annular projection o. The valves q, Fig. 4, consist of spring-pressed perforated cups which move on inwardly-extending flanges c<2>. In one modification, the valves k, q are in the form of spring flap-valves. In another, the plunger ends are internally-ribbed to provide longitudinal valve passages which are controlled by a springless unperforated cup-valve r', Fig. 6.
Patent GB-190411147-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Steam Generators.
Inventor: OWEN WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1904-05-14
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 11,147. Owen, W. H. May 14. Compound boilers. - A cylindrical boiler a, Fig. 1. containing an internal furnace or furnaces b, is combined with a watertube boiler e, preferably of the small-tube type. Suitable connections k<1>, l, m are made between the steam and water spaces of the two boilers. The water tubes are arranged in longitudinal or transverse rows and are connected above and below to suitable drums i,j. Baffles o deflect the gases amongst the tubes. Where a number of furnaces b are employed, they are arranged closer together and nearer to the water level than is usual. The feed-pipe q is connected to the back upper drum i. If only a single bank of tubes is fitted, the upper drum is provided with a partition r, shown in dotted lines. Figs. 3 and 4 show modifications in the arrangement of the tubes and drums.
Patent GB-190411273-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Conveyors.
Inventor: SPENCE CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1904-05-16
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 11,273. Spence, C. H. May 16. Drawings to Specification. Counting-apparatus.-Transverse strips divide a conveyer into a number of sections, which may be of such a size that each holds one of the articles being conveyed. In each of these sections is a spring-pressed pin, which is depressed when the section is loaded, and can then engage counting- apparatus, the number of articles conveyed being thus counted.
Patent GB-190411348-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Governing Oil Engines.
Inventor: ROBERTS DAVID
Filed: 1904-05-17
Granted: 1905-03-23
Abstract: 11,348. Roberts, D., and James, C. May 17. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, governing. The governor alters the stroke of the oil-pump plunger and thereby regulates the supply of oil to the cylinders. This method of governing is an improvement in explosion engines of the kind described in Specifications Nos. 7146 and 15,994, A.D. 1890, No. 3909, A.D. 1892, No. 6933, A.D. 1896, No. 17,839, A.D. 1897, No. 1426, A.D. 1898, Nos. 5914 and 10,849, A.D. 1900, and No. 7480, A.D. 1902. In Fig. 1, an arrangement is shown in which the governor f acts, through a fork g, lever h, rod i, lever arms j, l, and rod m, on the link d attached at one end to the pump plunger c and at the other end to a piece capable of sliding over a quadrant e, which receives its motion from the air-admission cam through a rod q and lever n with its fulcrum at o. A modified form of quadrant is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. It is stated that a single governor may govern an engine of several cylinders, and that; in the case of four cylinders working on the four-stroke cycle, the governor will not have more than the working resistance of one pump at a time to overcome.
Patent GB-190414850-A (GB)
Title: Improved Golf Club
Inventor: MACDONALD WILLIAM JOHN BLACK
Filed: 1904-07-02
Granted: 1904-08-04
Abstract: 14,850. Macdonald, W. J. B. July 2. Golf.-The Figure shows the head of a golf putter, to which the handle A is attached in the middle at right-angles. The head is shaped so that the ball may be struck with either face. It may be made with one part C of wood and the other part D of metal ; or it may be made entirely of wood or metal.
Patent GB-190415868-A (GB)
Title: Improved Box-iron.
Inventor: ZIMMERMANN ERNST
Filed: 1904-07-16
Granted: 1905-05-11
Abstract: 15,868. Zimmermann, E. July 16. Ironing.-An internally-heated hand-iron is constructed with layers of asbestos &c. and an air space, to prevent loss of heat and radiation or conduction to the handle. The body a, of the usual construction, is corrugated or ribbed internally, and has the usual apertures for heating by a flame jet or other means. It is covered with a thin metal plate e on which is placed a layer of asbestos f or other non-conductor of heat. Another metal plate g with a similar covering h is fixed to the plate e and to the body a by the three screws k, and distance-pieces ensure an air space between the two plates g, e. The handle m and wooden covering q are screwed to the plate g by a single screw bolt and nut n.
Patent GB-190421891-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Centrifugal Fans or Pumps.
Inventor: DAVIDSON SAMUEL CLELAND
Filed: 1904-10-11
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 21,891. Davidson, S. C. Oct. 11. Centrifugal pumps.- The efficiency of encased centrifugal pumps is increased by providing them with an inlet eye, or eyes, eccentric to the axis of rotation or extending more on one side of it than the other. The invention is applicable especially to the multibladed drum form of centrifugal fan described in Specification No. 4609, A.D. 1898, and is applied in conjunction with the improvements in the fan and snail-shaped casing which are described in Specification No. 7050, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Air and gases, Compressing &c.]. Fig. 3 shows an inlet eye of approximately oval contour having a flattened portion h, h<1> and a portion i, i<2> approximately coincident with the inner edge of the blades. Modified forms comprise a circular contour and an oval contour without a flattened portion. The shape and position of the portion h, h<2> corresponds approximately to the margin of a return current of air, which is found to flow inwards through the blades, at the inlet end, when the fan is working against a high back pressure or suction resistance; this current, instead of escaping through the inlet, is confined within the intake chamber. As shown in Fig. 6, the eye may consist of a separate incurved plate G<1> secured to the wall of the casing. In applying the invention to fans of the ordinary pressure-blower type, or of the paddle-wheel type &c., (a) the blades are cut away so as not to extend within that portion of the eye which is farthest from the axis, (b) they are increased in number until the circumferential distance between them is less than their radial depth, and (c) the casing preferably is modified so as to conform to the shape described in Specification No. 7050, A.D. 1904.